Theo's Neighborhood Pizza: New Orleans food truck guide

Some buy a food truck with dreams of one day owning a restaurant. When Theo's Pizza launched a truck, they already had three restaurants.

At first, Theo's thought the truck would be useful for festivals and catering. But the pizza-makers are now out on the streets regularly for lunch and late-nights. Food trucks, they learned, are fun.

"You're still serving pizza," said Jammer Orintas, one of three owners of Theo's, "but it's less intense than the restaurant."

The truck, unlike the restaurants, sells pizza by the slice. It's a unique variety with a thin, cracker crisp crust. The inspiration was the pizza of St. Louis. All three of the owners on Theo's attended the University of Arkansas, and they used to cross over to Missouri to buy beer.

The pizza on the truck is made in the exact same manner as the pies at the restaurant.

"We have the same dough," he said. "We have the same oven we have in the restaurants."

That oven was built by Bakers Pride and weighs 2,000 pounds.

"If we have a problem with it," Orintas said, "I'll never be able to get it out.